East Oakland’s Ceasefire community leaders set the record straight « Oakland Local

In 2013, Oakland’s infamous murder stats dropped a whopping 28 percent, year to year. The community leaders who pushed to set up a full Ceasefire program, and now partner with the City, are claiming credit for most of that decline. They want those numbers to go down further, and they want the larger community to recognize the long-time commitment that has brought this change to the streets of East Oakland.